The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-02
ROTTEN BOROUGH SCHEME.


II saltL City, Utah.
u ROTTEN BOROUGH SCHEME,
lere have been good many schemes
sed having for their object the res
ction of Nevada. Perhaps resHr-
7 on is not the proper term to imply
lg life to something that was never
hing other an inanimate body. The
er expression would be to create
ething from nothing. Nevada never
anything and never can be any
g unless it be given something. 1t
conceived in sin and brought forth
I iquity. 1t was corruption which
I AIRED it to be something and cor =
ion has attended its career from the
1t was political roguery which
bounced a mineral vein a sovereign
and sage brush desert inhab tied
oyotes and rattle snakes an Ameri
commonwealth. 1t was an insult
cry other Territory and a gross in
to every State to declare Nevada a
= of the Union and confer upon
iful of Adventures. nomads and
less spectators political privileges
equal of those enjoyed by the great
ommunity in the republic. In plain
Is, it was brazen scondrelism which
, Nevada State and gave her
ssentation ia the upper
CHI of the American Congress.
| to that of New York or
lsylVania, and permitted her
BON of people to participate in max
laws and electing Presidents for
populous and thrifty communities
American Territories. Born in
lption Nevada has existed by fraud
political roguery. Dishonesty has
.ed her every political act, and |
j, moral and political depravlity |
characterized her history.
II silver ledge having been ex |
ted, and her alkali and sage brush |
being things which cannot be |
d upon, her politicians mu come |
lrd with an impudent scheme to
omething that will enabls them to |
nue. their lives of plumber and pol
: immortality. Elk Senator William
yewart, a man whose ideas of hon
n government are as loose as his
ton is lofty and his greed for
ey which he does not earn is con-
ng, is credited with devising and
.pioning scheme for incorporat-
ito Nevada the larger portion of
} Territory, and a part of Utah.
ants to gobble up all of Idaho
OF Salmon River and the forty-fifth
lei or north latitude, which is all of
erritory save single country COM
lg the narrow strip of country
between Montana and Wash
n, and which will eventually be
he'd to the latter. The steal from
contemplates all north 81 the y.
first parallel, including Box Ell
Cache, Rich and Weber counties en-
Davis north of KaysviIle, all ex-
a small corner of Morgan, and
nit north and east of Echo. This
d erase Idaho from the map, and
from Utah $1,000 of her population
he richest section of her country
i've toNevada 120, 900 people and go
luare miles of territory, every foot
Itch is more valuable than any foot |
e sage covered desert or rugged |
ntains of the pauper State; 1t
d be giving to her three people for
, one now PROCESSING citizenship S
, rotten borough; it would make I
da the richest, most inconvenient ]
siest and most corrupt State in the
and reduce Utah to an insigniic- t
osition and condition from which G
ould not rise to the dignity {
vigor of proper statehood in de.
re is no likelihood that the scheme r
ucceed; there is no possibility Of n
ing through; every sense of de- $
=, of honesty, offairness, OF justice, @
mainly protests against it, and
corruption ard most infamous $
cal scoundrelism can favor the pro. d
outrage. We mention the scheme 3
merely to show up again the char v
of the average Nevada politician O
in the person of Stewart. -
more probable that one of these +
Nevada will be the barren wilder. e
hat it was when hungry Indians n
ID toads and gaunt coyotes were h
ally living things within its borders. n
orrupt politicians were unknown in s.
and. When the few remaining o
of silver shall have been dug out, v
othing has been left from which to "
nd cloth the fast-decreasing popu- b
j, all will leave save only those T
niger to receive the money which e.
rancisco millionaires dole out to e
in payment for the empty title of a
d States Senator. O
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